History Movies

The World's Greatest Fair

87/100

A fascinating view of the largest World's Fair in history held in 1904. Hundreds of images, early film footage, and engaging interviews bring to life stories of dog-eating tribes on exhibit... See full summary »

Pod znakom skorpiona

78/100

History of the Russian revolution through the eyes of Gorky, the writer and the man. He initially was sympathetic with some of Lenin's promises, but later became shocked with Lenin's bloody... See full summary »

Fields of Freedom

69/100

The Battle of Gettysburg.

Svoya chuzhaya zhizn

66/100

Director Andrei Kalistratov is shooting a TV mini-series about the literary life of Petrograd after the Civil War, about the House of Art, which was established by the Bolsheviks in order ... See full summary »

Sardar-e jangal

60/100

The Great Wall of China

77/100

Channel 4 docudrama following the history of the Great Wall of China, from the earliest building of simple mud walls to the construction of the series of stone fortresses built during the ... See full summary »

Françoise Dolto, le désir de vivre

58/100

Christine Cristina

54/100

The life of medieval author Christine de Pizan (Amanda Sandrelli).

Sinterklaasjournaal: De Meezing Moevie

57/100

Lots of singing during the preparations for the Evening of the Presents.

Under the Same Sun

73/100

The film is set in the near future, and it looks back on how peace was made in 2013 between Israel and Palestine. It is the story of two businessmen - one Palestinian and one Israeli - who ... See full summary »

Blazeni Augustin Kazotic

84/100

Biopic of Augustin Kazotic (1260-1323), a Croatian humanist, a medieval Dominican friar, an orator and bishop of Zagreb. He was one of the first humanist figures to appear in southern Croatia.

Mawkib Al-Ebaa'

63/100

Save Our Souls: The Titanic Inquiry

75/100

The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?

La espina de Dios

62/100

Palestine. Century I. The people of Israel remains under Roman rule. A small group of men began to preach the next coming of the Kingdom.

Ordered to Forget

61/100

As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.

The Cyclotron

57/100

In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase.

I, Claude Monet

71/100

This is the story of Monet as expressed through his personal letters as he painted.

Torgus

61/100

John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern aunt wants him to marry a rich girl. To ... See full synopsis »

Annelie

66/100

Mä oksalla ylimmällä

40/100

A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.

Vorabend

69/100

The story is set in the 1800s.Elena and Inzarov,a revolutionary Bulgarian ,fall in love.After secretly marrying they decide to join the liberation, but on the eve of departure Dmitry dies. Elena takes Inzarov's body to the Balkans .

Der Mann, der den Tod überlebte

64/100

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.

Der Ring der Fürstin Anna

62/100

Boleslaw der Kühne

63/100

Cananea

60/100

The Cananea strike took place in June 1906. This is the true story of strikers in the American owned mine. Cananea is a city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.